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The Russian military has destroyed yet another American-made M1A1 SA Abrams main battle tank of Kiev forces in the Donetsk direction.
The tank, which was upgraded in Ukraine with a cage armor and explosive reactive armor blocks, was targeted near the settlement of Pokrovsk to the northwest of the city of Avdeeva. It is unclear how exactly the tank was destroyed, but it is very possible that it was hit by multiple rocket-propelled rockets fired by Russian troops from a close range. Videos showing the burned out tank were posted to social networks on August 21.
Ukraine received 31 Abrams from the United States over the past year. The total cost of the Abrams can vary, and can be over $10 million per a single tank when including training and sustainment. Around a half of the tanks have already been destroyed or damaged.
While all the documented losses so far have been near Avdeevka, Russian media reported on August 22 that an Abrams was destroyed in Kursk. This is yet to be confirmed, however. Kiev forces have been attacking the Russian region for the last few weeks.
A report by CNN from earlier this year acknowledged that the tank performed poorly in Ukraine and revealed that Kiev forces have been struggling just to keep their remaining Abrams operational.
The failure of the Abrams in Ukraine was not surprising as the tank suffered serious losses in Iraq and Yemen before. However, this was without a doubt embarrassing for both the U.S. and the Kiev regime who promoted the tank as a game changing weapon.
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vadolf zelensky : ” i reformed the military system on august 16, 2024. those between the ages of 16-25 will be drafted into the ukranian military.”
now nazis have a girl scouts brigade lol 😂
this tank changed the game, managed to make kvie lose even more🤣
abram is a junkyard resident lol
it is just a driving coffin against an equal opponent or well armed guerilla fighters. come to think of it the kursk invasion is pointless because there is no air support. theoretically russia can wipe out everything that is driving around in the battle zone in 1 day. when that is not done or even tried it means they are de-nazifying ukraine on their own territory and let the enemy forces storm to their deaths
actually the afu has used airpower in some areas which makes you wonder how is it possible that they still have planes and bases to fly them from
perhaps it makes you wonder. it takes little to keep an airstrip operational. it was quite apparent that significant numbers of ukrainian aircraft were desroyed early in the smo, but as everyone knows, they received replacements from various former nazi satellites in nato, and can continue their pinprick operations just like the german and japanese air forces kept flying to the bitter end.
what kind of war did the americans want the ukrainains to fight against the russians? did they prepare the ukrainains to fight that kind of war, and did the russians oblige by fighting the kind of war anticipated by the us handlers?
what happened to crew ??? please don’t tell me that russia allowed them to escape
that piece of garbage should be towed off and dumped outside the us embassy.
russia should pile up the nato armour around each related foriegn embassy until they have built a wall of destroyed armour around them such that there is only enough room in one small gap to walk through and ambassadors have to leave their cars in their compounds. that’s the kind of trolling russia needs to do, to cheer up the russians a bit.
another smoking hull of a vanity tank designed more for milking taxes than for surviving combat.